Sunday, August 06, 2006
Category: Law, Nothing But A Human Institution
Well, well, well, oh well. John Lennon.
This topic is probably way too intense, volatile, provocative and controversial to sum up in a classic four paragraph derivative.
No, actually.
I can do it in one.
Law is like values, an expression of values in fact, like culture, law is the glue that binds. In the US, the glue is rotting and thus the framework is failing soon to disintegrate.
There are a couple of films that really impact this topic in an enlightening way, The Last Wave by Peter Weir and Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? by the Cohen Brothers.
In the former there is a culture that believes laws are more important than man. In the latter we see the devil mocking and scoffing at the suggestion the law matters by dismissing it as “a human institutionâ€.
Both these are valid truthful displays of the subjective, of the fact that humans create their culture and sometimes enforce their culture.
Law is only as powerful as its enforcement.
You tell me it’s the institution. Well you know, you better free your mind instead.
Huh?
John Lennon says that blaming the institution is dubious? Are you commenting that this piece is blaming the institution? The institution that makes some recording artists millions of dollars off of one recording accomplished in mere hours?
This is about describing what I see.
Truth.
Hahahahaha. No. You mentioned institution, so I quoted a John song with institution in it. That is all. So worth it, too. Just for your reaction. Man. Excellent.
Ah.
So aren’t into meaningful exchange and all that crap you mentioned in an earlier comment.
Just messing with the Aristotle.
Don’t mess with the Aristotle. In this modern day re-creation of Ancient Greek discourse he’s got Homer and Euripides to back him up! Remember, as the Italian Tailor said “Euripides (“You-Rippa-Dees”) pants you pay for ‘em!”
perhaps the last wave and oh brother should be in your nothing to watch section, as well. let the commercialization of nothingness begin.
Duh.